Turns out, protecting priceless jewels might require more than a basic password.
You’d think the world’s most famous museum, home of the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and enough priceless art to fund a small nation, would have an equally sophisticated security system. Well, not exactly.
A new report by French newspaper Libération claims that the password for the Louvre’s video surveillance system was literally “Louvre.” That’s right, maybe one step step above “password123”, but still.